Twisted

**Please note, this post has been recorded live before a studio audience (well, OK, the dogs).  I am off enjoying my reunion.  I will catch up with you all on my return**

So ... I went to You Tube to find a video of Scott Wesley Brown's "This Little Child" to post on my December 25 Christmas post. I have always thought of that song as a Chritmas song, even though others have informed me it is not. I has the post written, had it embedded, and was watching it run through. I was very happy with it ... until I got to about 3:33 in the video and then WHOA! Am I seeing what I think I am, and what's that next? Ghaa! Stop that right now.

NOT what I have thought about with this song.

I post it here, below, and you can watch or not, as you choose ... but I warn you that at 3:33 in the video, this amazing Cristmas song becomes a platform for someone else's hate, and gay bashing, and political ... I am not really sure what to call it.

I am very tolerant of other people's opinions ... as long as they afford the same courtesy back. I don't know Scott Wesley Brown personally, but to me "fools who march to win the right to justify their sins" is not a reference to same-sex marriage, and "Every nation that has fallen, has fallen from within" showing the 9/11 attacks ... wrong, wrong, wrong.

 

If you don't stand behind the troops ...

... feel free to stand in front of them.

I saw this bumper sticker again on a car today.  I have seen this slogan on t-shirts, coffee mugs, bumper stickers, web sites, and e-mail signatures.

It offends me.   (I declare this can of worms.... OPEN!)

Just give me a second.

I support the troops.  I really do.

To me, my gut reaction to the slogan is that it implies that people who don't support the troops should stand in front of them ... either to be shot by them, or to be used as human shields.  Which I am pretty sure is the kind of things the people we are fighting against do, not the kind of thing our own troops do.

I *understand* what is really being implied ~ that if you don't support the troops, try doing their job, seeing what they see ... but to me, that is not being made clear in the message.

I certainly haven't asked them all, but I like to think that the majority of our Canadian troops (and American, and British, and Australian, and ... you get it) would defend a civilian's right to their opinion, even if it differed from their own ... even if it meant them not agreeing with the approved mission, or "supporting the troops".  I would like to think that most of them would not want a civilian standing in front of them in an active theater.

I try to be clear, and only say things I mean.  To me, that slogan does not say what I mean.

Comments, as always, welcome and expected.  Please feel free to disagree with me!